Hi all,<br>Appologies for previously sending a difficult-to-work-with link to my "Catch the Clown" gamemaker visual tutorial. Rupert Russell has kindly given me advice on using tinyurl to post long urls.<br>Below is the link using tinyurl. <br><b><br>http://tinyurl.com/gfsrf<br><br></b>Thanks Russell.<br><br>Nik Dulics<br>Stotts College<br>43-53 Elizabeth Street<br>Melbourne 3000 VIC<br>ph. 9629 9966<br><br><br><b><i>Rupert Russell <rupert.subscriptions@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div>Dear Nick</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks for your instructions.</div> <div> </div> <div>One thing to note is that if you use spaces in file names that you publish to the web you have to replace the space with a %20 character in the URL so that </div> <div> </div> <div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://astotts.customer.netspace.net.au/stottsvce/How" target="_blank">http://astotts.customer.netspace.net.au/stottsvce/How</a> to make a simple game.doc </div> <div> </div> <div>becomes </div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://astotts.customer.netspace.net.au/stottsvce/How%20to%20make%20a%20simple%20game.doc">http://astotts.customer.netspace.net.au/stottsvce/How%20to%20make%20a%20simple%20game.doc</a></div> <div> </div> <div>This makes for long and ugly URL's </div> <div> </div> <div>I always people to avoid both capital letters and spaces in the names of any files that are published to the web.</div> <div> </div> <div>PS there is a free service at <a href="http://tinyurl.com/">http://tinyurl.com/</a> that will take a long URL and make a short pointer for you.</div> <div> </div> <div>I have used it to make a pointer to the above document that is</div> <div> </div> <div><a
href="http://tinyurl.com/zwo8j">http://tinyurl.com/zwo8j</a></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Regards,</div> <div> </div> <div>Rupert.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>> I have adapted the "Catch the Clown" activity from a "wordy" tutorial to<br>> a "visual" tutorial. It still contains some challenges though.<br>><br>> Here is the url to download my 663 KB Word adaptation. <br>><br>> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://astotts.customer.netspace.net.au/stottsvce/How" target="_blank">http://astotts.customer.netspace.net.au/stottsvce/How</a> to make a </div> <div>> simple game.doc<br>></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Helv" size="2"> <div>------------------------------------------------------------------</div> <div>Rupert Russell<br>Project Officer ACU Online<br>Australian Catholic University<br>Aquinas Campus (Ballarat) <br>PO Box 650 <br>Ballarat Victoria 3350<br>AUSTRALIA
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